Protecting Intellectual Property Everyone has heard the tale of someone who invented something big, but never got the patent for it. These storytellers complain that they never got their due for what they feel is their intellectual property. Luckily there’s…
Copyright Law Fundamentals Copyright law protects people such as authors, publishers, writers from making unauthorized copies. But copyright law is so much more than that: it’s the distribution protection of copyrighted material, public performance, public display and digital audio transmission…
Fair Use and Copyrights Those who hold intellectual property and copyright have control and exclusive rights. Intellectual property law (IP) establishes these exclusive rights to the creator. However, there are notable exceptions to IP law, including the Fair Use Doctrine.…
Business Lawyer Lawyers are often represented in popular culture to be civil or criminal litigators who spend all day in intense courtroom settings. Needless to say, this over dramatizes the profession which, for many kinds of lawyers, is not so…
Protecting Your Brand When starting, maintaining, and building your brand it is imperative to make sure you implement protection measures in order to defend your intellectual property and prevent counterfeiting. In order to protect yourself from these law violations, lawyers…
What Is Fair Use? Fair use is a limitation on the rights of copyright holders. One of the rights of a copyright holder is to have exclusive authority to reproduce the copyrighted work or authorize others to reproduce the copyrighted…
Issues in Patent Law As a part of intellectual property law, patents protect and grant rights to the owner of an invention, and can come in various forms. The inventor must understand exactly what they have created, as this can…
Trademarking Essentials in California Trademarks are one of the many protections afforded under Intellectual Property (IP) law. The purpose of a trademark is to distinguish a good through its use of a design, word, symbol, or phrase. While they are…